Director Mike Flanagan, known for his popular Netflix series Midnight Mass and the Fall of the House of Usher, takes on the Exorcist with the new film The Exorcist: Martyrs. The film stars Scarlett Johansson, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Diane Lane, Scott McNairy, Peter Nircks and Laurence Fishburne. The Exorcist: Martyrs comes to theaters March 12, 2027.
Here’s the official synopsis:
Thirteen years ago, New York City detective Julie Miller (Johansson) ended the terror reign of satanic serial killer Father Sunday. The case made her a hero, and she has thrown herself into her work ever since. Now a new killer scrawls her name in an altar boy’s blood on the walls of a church crypt, dragging her back into the darkness she believed she had buried with him. Aided by former prison chaplain Father William (Academy Award® nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor), who heard Father Sunday’s final confession, and sharp rookie detective Gina Restrepo (Sasha Calle, The Rip), Detective Miller will discover a filament linking a lineage of serial killers, from H.H. Holmes to the Zodiac, that could corrupt everything, and everyone, she loves with an evil that goes well beyond the mortal.
